Lunch Lecture - Mirna Zakić: The Farthest Watch of the Reich: National Socialism and Ethnic Germans in World War II

This lecture will look at National Socialism beyond the borders of Germany, especially its influence on German minorities in East and Southeast Europe. With a focus on a specific ethnic German community in the Southeast, the lecture challenges an interpretation of National Socialism as a monolithic ideology. The reasons behind ethnic Germans' receptivity to Nazism and the forms of their wartime collaboration with the Third Reich will also be examined.